MNV Consulting Ltd

Specialists in water resources and hydro-power development

Browsing Posts tagged river channel flows

In November 2008 MNV was contracted to carry out some river bank protection works using willow spiling. The site was at Oatridge College near Edinburgh, an agricultural college where a series of demonstration sites have been constructed showing best practices in footpath and bridge construction, different gates and fences and different ways of managing water. [...]

MNV was contracted by the Tweed Forum to deliver a river restoration project in Northumberland. The project looked at flooding issues on the River Till, focusing on damage caused by an increasing frequency and intensity of flood events around the Till – Glen confluence. This problem is not new. Flood embankments, ditches, swales and sluices designed to protect [...]

Over the last decade, MNV has undertaken many river surveys throughout Scotland. These have been for river restoration, lake surveys, channel morphology and land management contracts with the runoff assessed, flood generation investigated and habitat conditions surveyed. Most of these surveys involve walking up all river channels, wading through bogs and crawling through overgrown hillslopes. [...]